Then came the grate of gravel and the scraping of the boat's bottom on the beach.

It has succeeded in abolishing the cheap restaurants such as are found in all large cities, at which wretched food, generally the scrapings from high-class hotels and eating-houses, is worked over and sold to the poor.

Scrape the mucous surface firmly with the back of a knife blade, and rub up the scrapings in a mortar with fine sand.

Now scrape out all the inside, being careful not to break the apples; mix scrapings with sugar, cinnamon, raisins, a few pounded almonds and add a little white wine and the grated peel of one lemon.

The slight, familiar scraping on the ice told him that Fred and Jennie were at his heels.